Lloyd Doggett came from behind to beat frontrunner Bob Krueger, and then he beat Kent Hance in the run-off for the Democratic nomination. And plus, he had James Carville as his main campaign person.All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Mary Matalin, James Carville, with Peter Knobler, 1994, page 32:
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' . . . found one quote where Krueger said that Lloyd Doggett was a Little Leaguer. Bob Krueger was a Texas state senator and had been in Congress and used to be dean of one of the colleges at Duke University, and he'd gone to Oxford and been ambassador to Mexico. He was a big guy. Krueger said, "Texas needs a Big Leaguer in Washington and Lloyd Doggett is a Little Leaguer."
'So we would go into these small towns in Texas and go out to the baseball diamond—there's always a baseball diamond in the small towns of Texas—and hold these press conferences. And Lloyd Doggett would gather the townspeople and their Little League teams together and say, "You know, I am a Little Leaguer. And it's the Little Leaguers of Texas that need a senator, because 'Big League' Bob Krueger and the Big League insurance companies and the Big League banks and the Big League utilities got all the senators in the world." . . . '
What if Lloyd Doggett had beat Phil Gramm in the 1984 election for U.S. Senate seat from the state of Texas? How much do you see changing?